Decisive week for the labor reform: "We are in the final stretch. Everything is going quite fast"

The Government has

(nine if December 24, 25 and 31 are omitted) to approve the

and comply with the European Commission, hence this week it faces the

with social agents to try to achieve a agreement.

After failing to draw up a preliminary agreement last week on which to write the final text -work that will not be as simple as it may seem-, unions and employers have spent the weekend

, without any There have been exchanges of relevant documents this Saturday and Sunday.

"

", indicated this Sunday union sources of the negotiation to EL MUNDO.

"We must study well what is on the table at this time and we have several meetings called that although they were planned, we must prepare.

" pointed out others.

The social agents need more conversations throughout this week to be able to reach a consensus, but

, especially on the part of the

, which to date has been more conservative.

"

", point out sources close to the

.

"Everything is going

but we will have to wait for next week", they admitted on the other hand from nearby environments.

The week starts with a meeting

that will be

In the event that an agreement is not reached today, it will serve to know

that the Executive can show in its press conference after the Council of Ministers this Tuesday, December 21.

Once the agreement has been reached,

will begin

that will modify the articles of the Workers' Statute that are being revised and in this process,

foreseeably

.

After the broad brush agreement, the fine details will need to be cleared.

The sooner this drafting phase is entered, the more likely it is that the Executive will be able to present a legal norm that meets the standards in the Council of Ministers next week, on

or, failing that, in a Council extraordinary on

Cut temporality by guaranteeing flexibility

In both cases, the Minister of Labor,

able to fulfill the

within the framework of the Recovery Plan: to approve a new labor reform before the end of

"

that allow reducing structural unemployment and youth unemployment, reducing temporary employment and correcting the duality of the labor market, increasing investment in human capital, modernizing negotiation instruments and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of public employment policies ", is included in Component 23 of this plan.

In the details of the reform it is specified that the objective is to

(simplifying the number of contracts to three, generalizing the indefinite hiring and returning to the temporary contract "the causality that corresponds to the limited duration"), in addition to providing companies "

to crisis situations or cyclical changes in demand", such as

during the pandemic.

"The reform must

to changes in the economic context, with alternative mechanisms to the high temporality and the chaining of very short-term contracts," they point out.

In addition, the reform will have to reduce the temporary nature of

, penalize the excessive use of very short-term contracts and tackle labor fraud.

If this pre-agreement is not reached, the Executive will find itself in a

: approve a reform without the support of the social partners (something that Brussels could reproach because it would compromise its stability) or ask the Commission for an extension of the deadline, something unlikely since it would delay the disbursement of European funds.

All in all, the optimism expressed by the social dialogue partners seems to indicate that this week will be

and that the Government will be able to comply with Brussels.

The point now is to achieve a

between what the

could accept

especially in the limits to the use of

and the modification of the substantial conditions of work,

and what the

demand

which now focuses on the prevalence of the sectoral agreement over that of the company and the return to ultra-active agreements.

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